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A new method is described for thermodynamic calculations of a two-phase thermosyphon loop based on a one-dimensional finite element division, where each time...
Robert J. Lamm, Esther B. Lim, Kathleen Weigandt, Lilo D. Pozzo, Nathan J. White, Suzie H. Pun
Therapeutic polymers have the potential to improve the standard of care for hemorrhage, or uncontrolled bleeding, as synthetic hemostats. PolySTAT, a fibrin...
Ziyuan Song, Rachael A. Mansbach, Hua He, Kuo-Chih Shih, Ryan Baumgartner, Nan Zheng, Xiaochu Ba, Yinzhao Huang, Deepak Mani, Yun Liu, Yao Lin, Mu-Ping Nieh, Andrew L. Ferguson, Lichen Yin, Jianjun Chen
Synthetic polypeptides have received increasing attention due to their ability to form higher ordered structures similar to proteins. The control over their...
Elliott Brown, A. Mingardi, W-D. Zhang, Ari Feldman, Todd E. Harvey, Richard Mirin
We present a study of room-temperature, ultrafast photoconductivity associated with strong, sub-bandgap, resonant absorption around lamba} = 1550 nm in three...
Critical dimension atomic force microscopy (CD-AFM) is a measurement technique that uses flared tips and two-dimensional surface sensing to enable scanning of...
Kenneth Voss, Howard Gordon, Stephanie J. Flora, B. Carol Johnson, Mark A. Yarbrough, Michael Feinholz, Terrance Houlihan
The upwelling radiance attenuation coefficient (KLu) in the upper 10 m of the water column can be significantly influenced by inelastic scattering processes...
Michelle Elizabeth Jamer, Yung Jui Wang, Gregory M. Stephen, Ian J. McDonald, Alexander J Grutter, George E. Sterbinsky, Dario A. Arena, Julie A. Borchers, Brian J Kirby, Laura H. Lewis, Bernardo Barbiellini, Arun Bansil, Don Heiman
While antiferromagnets have been proposed as components to limit stray magnetic fields in spintronics devices, their inability to be spin polarized inhibits...
Quantum Hall systems exhibit topologically protected edge states, which can have a macroscopic spatial extent. Such edge states provide a unique opportunity to...
Frank Delaglio, Gregory S. Walker, Kathleen A. Farley, Raman Sharma, Jeffrey C. Hoch, Luke Arbogast, Robert Brinson, John Marino
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an indispensable tool in pharmaceutical science, with uses in drug discovery, development, and manufacturing...
Valeri I. Babushok, Gregory T. Linteris, Pol Hoorelbeke
A kinetic model of inhibition by the potassium containing compound potassium bicarbonate is suggested. The model is based on the previous work concerning...
Charles A. Little, Nathan D. Orloff, Christian J. Long, James C. Booth
Complex impedance measurements of fluids provide unique electrical information with important applications for chemical and pharmacological synthesis, and...
Koji Sekiguchi, Seo-Won Lee, Hiroaki Sukegawa, Nana Sato, Se-Hyeok Oh, Robert McMichael, Kyung-Jin Lee
The information carrier of modern technologies is the electron charge whose transport inevitably generates Joule heating. Spin-wave, the collective precessional...
Amanda Forster, Julie L. Bitter, Samuel E. Rosenthal, Stephanie S. Watson, Sydney Brooks
Microspectrophotometry (MSP) is a rapid, nondestructive technique for the analysis of color in textile fibers. This technique combines microscopy and...
The role of the prepeak structure of liquid methanol in determining its shear viscosity was studied by means of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and mode...
Christopher D. Bass, Maynard S. Dewey, Thomas R. Gentile, Hans Pieter Mumm, Alan Keith Thompson, M J. Bales, R. Alarcon, E J. Beise, H Breuer, Jim Byrne, T E. Chupp, Kevin Coakley, R L. Cooper, B. O'Neill, F E. Wietfeldt
The theory of quantum electrodynamics predicts that a continuous spectrum of photons is emitted in the beta decay of the free neutron in addition to a proton...
Walter Wilson, Hugh Hayes, Lane Sander, Andres Campiglia, Stephen Wise
A normal-phase liquid chromatography (NPLC) fractionation procedure was developed for the characterization of a complex mixture of polycyclic aromatic...
Kevin A. Gilmore, Justin G. Bohnet, Brian C. Sawyer, Joseph W. Britton, John J. Bollinger
We present measurements of the amplitude of a center-of-mass (COM) motion of a two-dimensional ion crystal composed of 100 ions in a Penning trap. For motion...
Nicolas Marquez Peraca, D T. Bilir, Behrang Hamadani
The frequency dependence of the external quantum efficiency (EQE) of high-quality multijunction solar cells was examined by the modulated photocurrent...
Veruska D. Malave, Jason Killgore, Edward Garboczi, John Berger
Indentation-based studies of inhomogeneous structural materials depend on indenting a surface by loading with a small indenter. The load versus displacement...
Brian C. Sales, Ke Jin, Hongbin Bei, John Nichols, Matthew F. Chisholm, F. May, Nicholas Butch, Andrew D. Christianson, Michael A. McGuire
Concentrated solid solutions of transition metal atoms, such as NiCoCr, have extreme chemical disorder within a simple face-centered-cubic crystal structure...
With any roughness at the interface of an indirect-bandgap semiconducting dot, the phase of the valley-orbit coupling can take on a random value. This random...
Lixiang Xu, Judith Specht, Philip Nagler, Kha Tran, Akshay Singh, Chandriker K. Dass, Andreas Knorr, Xiaoqin Li, Galan Moody
In atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), reduced dielectric screening of the Coulomb interaction leads to strongly correlated many-body...
Jorge O. Ona Ruales, Lane C. Sander, Walter Brent Wilson, Stephen Wise
The relationship of reversed-phase liquid chromatography retention on a polymeric C18 stationary phase and the shape of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)...
James B. Marro, Chukwudi A. Okoro, Yaw S. Obeng, Kathleen C. Richardson
Organic additives are typically used in the pulse electrodeposition of copper (Cu) to prevent void formation during the filling of high aspect ratio features...
Bradley Alpert, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Lawrence T. Hudson, Young I. Joe, Kelsey Morgan, Carl D. Reintsema, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Csilla Szabo-Foster, Joel Ullom, Joseph Fowler, Galen O'Neil, Douglas Bennett
We introduce a new technique for determining x-ray fluorescence line energies and widths, and we present measurements made with this technique of 22 x-ray L...
The quest for a reliable means to detect cannabis intoxication with a br eathalyzer is ongoing. In order to design such a device, it is important to understand...
Lee L. Yu, Rolf L. Zeisler, Rachel C. Stanoyevitch
Kelp is a dietary supplement that contains significant amount of arsenic. Accurate assessment of dietary safety of kelp requires the determination of the...
Daniel R. Schiffels, Veronika A. Szalai, James A. Liddle
Robust self-assembly across length scales is a ubiquitous feature of biological systems, but remains challenging for synthetic structures. Taking a cue from...
Jessica A. Cloy-McCoy, Jacqueline T. Bangma, Jessica L. Reiner, John Bowden, John Schnorr, Michael Slowey, Tom O'Leary, Louis J. Guillette, Benjamin B. Parrott
Endocrine disrupting contaminants, in combination with other environmental variables, are associated with altered reproductive health. Assisted reproductive...